“I understand (but don’t put yourself out, don’t discuss it if you don’t want to).
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Aemilius commanded on the Roman right, Gaius Terentius on the left, Marcus Atilius and Gnaeus Servilius, the Consuls of the previous year, on the centre.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

[5] encendidos dictaba una proclama y ordenaba un asalto.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

“I tell you what it is: you’ve got my sculls,” he cries, turning to bow; “pass yours over.”
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

Comen granos, pan y otros alimentos; no desdeñan las moscas y demás insectos volantes, que atrapan diestramente en el aire; tragan también piezas de metal, monedas, y aún las piedrezuelas que encuentran.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

What is the highest price you offer?
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

And sometimes they would break forth within the precedent yellow, or red, or perhaps within the blue of the second order, before the intermediate Colours had time to display themselves.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

The reason of this is to be found in the political condition of Rome at that time; for the people, being at variance with the senate, refused to elect consuls, and chose military tribunes instead, who, although they had full consular powers, yet on account of their number were less offensive to the people than consuls.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

When, therefore, your intimacy is courted by those whose intimacy is an honour, and that, too, with an art, which conceals its purpose, you often find that you have, and are a devoted friend, really before you have felt sufficient gratitude for the opera-box which has been so often lent, the carriage which has been ever at hand, the brother who has received such civilities, or the father who has been requested to accept some of the unattainable tokay which he has charmed you by admiring at your own table.
— from The Young Duke by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

And I, as a good Pisan, shall rejoice, Though for myself I lose, in gaining you, This last fight and its opportunity; The chance it brings of saying Pisa yet, Or in the turn of battle dying so That shame should want its extreme bitterness.
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

Thus, battalion acting alone may attack two men per yard of front, but a regiment, with three battalions, may only double the front of the one battalion.
— from Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition by James A. (James Alfred) Moss

You are all missionaries and proselytizers trying to uproot the native religion from your neighbor's flowerbeds and plant your own in its place.
— from Getting Married by Bernard Shaw

I think I passed you on the stairs when I arrived, Mrs Linde?
— from A Doll's House : a play by Henrik Ibsen

The education you have received and the dignity of your own mind, place you on the level of the highest positions.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

"Yee; but what's to prevent your on-jinin' him?
— from Susanna and Sue by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

“We accept, my dear Denise, so long as it won’t put you out.
— from The Milkmaid of Montfermeil (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume XX) by Paul de Kock